Timeline of Main Events (Artworks Created):

1950s:

• Challenging Mud by Shiraga Kazuo

• The Naked City by Guy Debord

• 4’33” by John Cage (Performance by David Tudor)

• 18 Happenings in Six Parts by Allan Kaprow

• What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? by Richard Hamilton

• Die Fahne Hoch! [Raise the Banner!] by Frank Stella

1960s:

• The Store at Ray Gun by Claes Oldenburg

• Retroactive 1 by Robert Rauschenberg

• 1947-White (News Event: Disaster Series) by Andy Warhol

• Untitled by Donald Judd

• Double Negative by Michael Heizer

• Wrapped Coast – One Million Square Feet by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

• Time Landscape by Alan Sonfist (began in 1960s/1970s, ongoing)

• Auto-destructive art demonstrations by Gustav Metzger

• Open Modular Cube by Sol LeWitt

• One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth

• American People Series #20: Die by Faith Ringgold

• The Great Friends by Georg Baselitz

Untitled (to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow) by Dan Flavin

1960s-70s:

• Untitled (Mirrored Cubes) by Robert Morris

1970s:

• The Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson

• Art & Language, Index 01 by Joseph Kosuth

• Squat on by Valie Export

• The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago (1970s-80s)

• Interior Scroll by Carolee Schneemann

• Semiotics of the Kitchen by Martha Rosler

• Blackboard from the Office for Direct Democracy by Joseph Beuys with Johannes Stüttgen

• I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys

• Shapolsky et al. by Hans Haacke

• The Bowery: In Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems by Martha Rosler (1970s-80s)

• The Unteachable Soldier’s Christmas Dream by Bernhard Heisig

Untitled Film Stills by Cindy Sherman (1970s-80s)

1980s:

• Tilted Arc by Richard Serra

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin

• Hanged by Gerhard Richter

Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face by Barbara Kruger

1990s:

• House by Rachel Whiteread

• Chicago Board of Trade II by Andreas Gursky

• Dead Troops Talk by Jeff Wall

• Slavery! Slavery! by Kara Walker

• Puppy by Jeff Koons

• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst

• My Bed by Tracey Emin

2000s:

• Poll by Thomas Demand

Cast of Characters (Artists):

• Shiraga Kazuo: Japanese artist, Gutai movement. Known for physically engaging with materials like mud.

• Guy Debord: French artist and theorist, Situationist movement. Known for psychogeographical maps and critiques of urban planning.

• John Cage: American composer and artist. Known for his experimental music, including 4'33", which explores the concept of silence.

• David Tudor: (Pianist) Performed John Cage’s "4'33"

• Allan Kaprow: American artist, pioneer of Happenings. Known for blurring the lines between art and life through interactive performances.

• Richard Hamilton: British artist, considered a key figure in Pop Art. Known for collages that critique consumerism and mass media.

• Claes Oldenburg: Swedish-born American sculptor, Pop Art. Known for large-scale, soft sculptures of everyday objects.

• Robert Rauschenberg: American artist, Pop Art. Known for combining painting with mass media imagery through silkscreen techniques.

• Andy Warhol: American artist, Pop Art. Famous for his silkscreen prints of celebrities and consumer products, as well as his Disaster Series.

• Frank Stella: American artist, Minimalism. Known for geometric abstraction and hard-edged paintings.

• Donald Judd: American artist, Minimalism. Known for his industrial material sculptures emphasizing spatial experience and objecthood.

• Robert Morris: American artist, Minimalism. Known for mirrored cubes and exploring viewer perception and movement.

• Dan Flavin: American artist, Minimalism. Known for his light art using fluorescent tubes to transform space.

• Robert Smithson: American artist, Land Art. Known for earthwork sculptures like The Spiral Jetty.

• Michael Heizer: American artist, Land Art. Known for large-scale earthworks that engage with negative space and geological time, like Double Negative.

• Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Artistic collaboration known for wrapping buildings and landscapes in fabric.

• Alan Sonfist: American artist, Land Art. Known for Time Landscape, a living sculpture recreating a pre-colonial ecosystem.

• Gustav Metzger: German-born British artist. Known for Auto-Destructive Art, critiquing societal decay.

• Sol LeWitt: American artist, Conceptual Art and Minimalism. Known for geometric sculptures with mathematical precision.

• Joseph Kosuth: American artist, Conceptual Art. Known for works that challenge the relationship between language, reality, and representation.

• Faith Ringgold: American artist, Known for painting that powerfully addresses racial conflict in America.

• Valie Export: Austrian artist, Feminist Art movement. Known for subverting traditional representations of female sexuality.

• Judy Chicago: American artist, Feminist Art. Known for The Dinner Party, celebrating historical women.

• Carolee Schneemann: American artist, Feminist and Performance Art. Known for "Interior Scroll", symbolizing the empowerment of women.

• Martha Rosler: American artist, Feminist and Conceptual Art. Known for works critiquing gender roles and domesticity.

• Joseph Beuys: German artist, Fluxus movement. Known for social sculpture and performance art.

• Johannes Stüttgen: Worked with Beuys

• Hans Haacke: German artist. Known for works critiquing power structures, capitalism, and social inequality.

• Richard Serra: American sculptor, Known for challenging public art conventions by disrupting the space.

• Maya Lin: American artist and architect. Known for her minimalist design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

• Rachel Whiteread: British artist. Known for casting the interior of buildings, reflecting on memory and absence.

• Andreas Gursky: German photographer. Known for large-format photographs capturing the scale of global systems.

• Thomas Demand: German artist, known for photographs of carefully constructed models.

• Jeff Wall: Canadian artist. Known for large-scale staged photographs that reinterpret war and challenge representation.

• Bernhard Heisig: German artist, social realism movement. Known for expressionistic paintings critiquing militarization.

• Georg Baselitz: German artist, Neo-Expressionism. Known for his upside-down figures, questioning Western painting traditions.

• Gerhard Richter: German artist. Known for blending abstraction and realism in his paintings, addressing political content and memory.

• Cindy Sherman: American artist, Feminist Art. Known for "Untitled Film Stills", challenging representation of women in media.

• Barbara Kruger: American artist. Known for works using stark imagery and text to challenge perceptions of power and gender.

• Kara Walker: American artist. Known for large-scale cut-paper installations addressing the history of slavery.

• Jeff Koons: American artist. Known for oversized sculptures representing kitsch and consumer culture.

• Damien Hirst: British artist. Known for works exploring themes of death and mortality, such as a preserved shark in formaldehyde.

• Tracey Emin: British artist. Known for installations presenting personal items, reflecting on sexuality, depression, and the female experience.